Congress fucks up reading of constitution

You are now logged in. Forgot your password? Yesterday the House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill that would make "animal crushing" a federal felony punishable by up to seven years in prison. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture PACT Act exemplifies the belief that Congress has free-ranging authority to address anything that bothers its members, regardless of whether it is already addressed by state law and regardless of whether it plausibly fits within their enumerated powers. The PACT Act counterintuitively defines "animal crushing" to include not only crushing but also burning, drowning, suffocation, impalement, or any other action that causes "serious bodily injury.

M ost things Congress might do this year can be undone by the next election. Amendments to the United States Constitution cannot. Yet more constitutional amendment proposals are undergoing serious consideration in Congress at the moment than at any time in recent memory. After failing by only one vote to pass a balanced budget amendment proposal last March, Congress has gone on to consider a rash of proposed amendments that would impose congressional term limits, authorize laws against flag burning, give the president a line-item veto, abolish the electoral college, outlaw abortion, prohibit remedial school busing, and authorize school prayer, to name a few.

And even if it does survive him, what will he have done to it—how will a post-Trump Constitution be understood and used, or misused? House of Representatives. Since retiring from Congress he has spent his time writing, speaking, and relaxing. She has worked in progressive advocacy, on Capitol Hill, and in the White House.

Thanks for connecting! You're almost done. Connect to your existing Cracked account if you have one or create a new Cracked username.